Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-01-22

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bands, and, with a patience and heroism
that fit women always as garment, gave
their hands to work, There was a little
bitterness in all this Cheerfulness and
frankness prevailed. "Bill Arp" struck
the keynote when he said: "W ell
killed as many of them as they did Of
me. and | am going to work 5" Laughter
and applause. Or the soldier, returning
home after defeat and roasting some corn
on the roadside. who made the remark TO
his comrades: You may leave the South
if you want to, but am going TO San
dersyiile, kiss my wife and raise crop
and if the Yankees fool with me any
more will whip 'em again" Renewed
| applause. l want TO say to Gen. Sher-
man, who is considered an able man in
| our parts though some people think he
is a careless man about fire-that from
the ashes he left us in 1864 we have raised
kind of brave and beautiful city; that
| somehow or other we have caught the
| sunshine in the bricks and mortar of our
homes and have builded therein not one
ignoble prejudice or memory Ap-
| plause.
| 1t is impossible to describe the scene
that witnessed the delivery of this. As
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the campaign was to be, that the Confed-
crate, returning to his ruined home was
to stand in contrast with DIR. Talmage's
| picture of the Union armies return, the
| interest deepened and cries of good,
| good, encouraged the speaker. The
| illusions to the gray soldiers heroism
| provoked ringing cheers, and when the
! speaker dwelt on the bravery with which
ha IA 10 aud
toned work, the audience again arose to
its feet. and three times three cheers
were given with vim that made the
roof shake.
THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED,
The speaker hurried on to summary
of what the South had accomplished
under the lead of our returned soldiers,
of which the following is scanty ac-
count:
But what is the sum of our work. We
have found out that in the general sum
ming up the free negro counts more than
he did as slave. We have planted the
school house on the hilltop and made it
free to white and black We have sowed
towns and cities in the place Of theories
and put business above politics, Ap.
plause We have challenged your spin
| ners in Massachusetts and your iron
makers in Pennsylvania. We have learned
that the Si00, 100000 annually received
from our cotton crop will make us rich,
when the supplies that make il are home
raised We have reduced the CONNER.
cial rate of interest from ~ to 8 per cent,
and are floating per cent bonds We
have learned that one Northern inmi-
grant is worth fifty foreigners. and have
smoothed the path to southwark, wiped
out the place W ere Mason and Dixons
line used to be, and hung out our latch
string to you and yours Prolonged |
cheers. We have reached the point that
marks perfect harmony in every house
hold, when the husband confesses that
the pies which his wife cooks are az good |
rs those his mother used to bake: and we /
admit that the sun shines as brightly and I
the moon rs softly as il did before the
war Laughter We have estab I
lished thrift in city and country We /
have fallen in love with work We have
restored comfort to homes from which I
culture and elegance never departed. We
have let,economy take root and spread
among us as rank as.the crab grass which
sprung from Sherman's cavalry camps,
until we are ready to lay odds on the
Georgia Yankee as he manufac-
lures relics of the battle field
in a one story shanty and
squeezes pure olive oil out of his cotton
seed, against any Down Easter that ever
snapped wooden nutmegs for flannel
sausages in the valleys of Vermont
Loud and continuous laughter, Above
all, we know that we have achieved in
these piping times of peace a fuller
independence for the South than that
which our fathers sought to win in the
forum by their eloquence, or compel on
the field by their swords. Loud ap-
plause.
1t is a rare privilege, sir. 10 have had
part, however humble, in this work
Never was nobler duty confided to hu
man hands than the uplifting and up
building of the prostrate and bleeding
South, misguided, perhaps, but beautiful
in her suffering, and honest, brave and
generous always. Applause. In the
record of her social, industrial and polit
ical illustration we await with confidence
the verdict of the world.
THE NEGRO QUESTION
On the subject of the negro Mr.. Grady
spoke briefly, but to the point. lie
showad that the South had kept faith
with the negro in the fullest, and his de
nunciation as calumnious all assertions to
the contrary was received with the heart
lest applause,
But what of the ncgroy Have we !
solved the problem he presents or pro
yressed in honor and equity toward the !
solutionY Let the record speak to the ,
point. No section shows a more pros {
porous laboring population than the ne !
yroes of the South; none in fuller sympa {
Thy with the employing and land owning '
class. He shares our school fund, has {
he fullest protection Of our laws AMI the |
OF our people. oeif-interest, 5
IS well as honor, demand that he should a
have this. Our future, our very exist /
ence depend upon our working out this /
problem in full and exact justice We / n
that when Lincoln signed the I
proclamation. your victory '
was then assured; for he then committed :
rou to the cause of human liberty, v
against which the arms of man cannot
-[Applause while those OF our '
statesmen who trust to make slavery the +
cornerstone of the Confederacy doomed I
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